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Myths About Online Volunteering (Virtual Volunteering)
Online volunteering means unpaid service that is given via the Internet. It's a method of volunteering I (Jayne Cravens) have been using, studying, documenting or promoting since 1995, first independently, then with the Virtual Volunteering Project, and then with the...
SVDP Sponsor Back-to-School Shopping for Poor Kids
San Mateo County school children went shopping for back-to-school duds Saturday with $100 gift cards provided by Mervyn's and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The stores opened an extra hour early for the youths, who were chaperoned by St. Vincent de Paul volunteers,...
Vincentian Youth at World Youth Day
Hourly schedule of the August 19th meeting of Vincentian Marian Youth.Amopng the features.... “The Spirituality and Commitment of the Youth in the Vincentian Mission,” by Rita Oliva, Person Responsible for the International SSVP Youth and reports on progress of...
DC Working With Vietnamese in Midwest
It began with a nun’s prayer. Certainly, neither Sister Patricia Sullivan DC nor the Vietnamese priests and postulants who escaped from their country in the middle of the night in small boats back in 1975 thought it would lead to this. But three decades later, the...
DCs join Young People at WYD in Cologne
From 15-21 August Sisters Mary Timmons and Brenda Matterson will be with Young People from Britain attending the 20th WORLD YOUTH DAY in Cologne, Germany. Full story Program
SVDP Withdraws Request to Convert Rectory into a Shelter
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO A St. Vincent De Paul official Monday told the City Commission St. Vincent’s embattled plan to convert the rectory and school buildings is not worth the ill-will it has created with residents. Dan Herider, district council president of St. Vincent De...
SVDP Makes Progress on Homeless Shelther
ESCANABA, MICHIGAN - Organizers of St. Vincent de Paul Society's expansion are anxious to show off the brand new spacious facility built to improve services for the area's needy. St. Vincent de Paul, also known as "St. Vinny's," will be hosting an open house from 10...
World Youth About More Than Youth for Benedict XVI
Next week the curtain rises in Cologne, Germany, on the biggest event of the Catholic summer, as well as the most important road test to date of Benedict XVI’s papacy thereby offering insights into his ecumenical and interfaith stances according to John Allen.Next...
SVDP Helps Recycle Baseball Equipment for Dominican Republic
EUREKA -- A video showed the stream of young faces excitedly awaiting delivery of 400 pounds of baseball gear.The time was two years ago, but the mission Friday was the same. Dave Silverbrand, at the time a reporter with KVIQ and now the station manager, had worked...
Defining Poverty Out of Existence – Australian Perspective
AUSTRALIA, August 8, 2005 (onlineopinion.com.au): Most commentators will tell you that “poverty” should be defined and measured relative to the living standards of specific societies. This means that “poverty” in Africa is very different from “poverty” in Australia....
